![]() Horses and donkeys pulled a four-cart caravan along dirt paths in sweltering heat. Thousands of miles away in Senegal, Amadou Altine Ndiaye's family led livestock through a sparse African savannah dotted by acacia trees and brush. ![]() The animals would need strength for the trek eastward across vast, hilly grasslands. Occasionally, he and his wife, Nurmaa, stopped to help struggling young ones, weak after a harsh winter - putting a lamb in the warm comfort of a van and hand-feeding a foal rejected by its mother. On horseback, he rode to a well with nearly a thousand sheep and goats. ![]() SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) - The half-crescent moon glowed in the predawn Mongolia sky as Agvaantogtokh and his family began preparing for yet another big move with their animals. Cooking big meals of breads, stews, milk tea and homemade wine. Nurmaa, who married into this way of life, says, "Year by year I have learned a lot of things." Herding and birthing animals. Nurmaa, the wife of herder Agvaantogtokh, rounds up their sheep, in the Munkh-Khaan region of the Sukhbaatar district, in southeast Mongolia, Saturday, May 13, 2023.
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